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  22,000 years of arctic ice cores melt, and wash the YHWH/JESUS concept down the sewer

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  the full story, as told in the uk guardian can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/16/arctic-ice-cores-melt-university-alberta-canada.

  and briefly it tells of an equipment failure at a storage facility for ice cores that had been extracted from the polar ice cap in various locations.. but note, that the layers of ice evident in the cores covered a period of 22,000 years.

  and from the christian/jw perspective, that's impossible, for the bible story of the flood (verified by jesus and sundry other biblical writers) maintains that 4000+ years ago, the ice caps would have melted during the period when the earth was covered by the divinely caused deluge.

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  unsure

  I'm not religious but the OP and the link doesn't wash anything away.

  Many religious people don't believe every passage, timeframe, date in the Bible is literal.
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  "Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?"

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  "if i understand what you just declared, you just asserted that cern, the european center for nuclear research, disproved the existence of ghosts.".

  "yes," cox replied.. http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/02/16/has_the_large_hadron_collider_disproved_the_existence_of_ghosts.html.

  what do you think about this relating to.

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  @Nathan Natas

  I made no statements in my OP.
  

  I merely quoted and linked an article and asked what forum members thought of it.
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  Octopuses Are Even More Amazing Than We Thought

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  "published in the journal cell, scientists have found that cephalopods are able to edit their rna, at the expense of evolution in their genomic dna.

  in other words, they are able to rapidly change on the cellular level to suit their environment, rather than relying on the slow evolution of dna to make changes.".

  http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/octopuses-are-even-more-amazing-than-we-thought/.

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  unsure

  Octopuses and all Cephalopods are amazing.

  If you YouTube "octopus jar" you will find videos of octopuses opening jars with threaded lids to escape from them or to get food that is inside.

  I for one, welcome our Cephalopod overlords.
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  "Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?"

  by unsure in

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  "if i understand what you just declared, you just asserted that cern, the european center for nuclear research, disproved the existence of ghosts.".

  "yes," cox replied.. http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/02/16/has_the_large_hadron_collider_disproved_the_existence_of_ghosts.html.

  what do you think about this relating to.

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  @jp1692

  I agree with what you've said.

  Cox's absolutist comments seem misguided.

  I don't know what I believe but I do know there is currently no objective, verifiable proof of the paranormal.
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

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  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

  aaaaand discuss!.

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  unsure

  But then... how would his activity be supernatural or paranormal if simple nature (namely static electricity) could interrupt that?

  The metaphysical is said to somehow interact with our physical world. Not sure how but that is what I've read.

  Ie. Ghosts using electricity to manifest themselves.
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  "Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?"

  by unsure in

  1. social
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  "if i understand what you just declared, you just asserted that cern, the european center for nuclear research, disproved the existence of ghosts.".

  "yes," cox replied.. http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/02/16/has_the_large_hadron_collider_disproved_the_existence_of_ghosts.html.

  what do you think about this relating to.

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  unsure

  "If I understand what you just declared, you just asserted that CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, disproved the existence of ghosts."

  "Yes," Cox replied.

  http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/02/16/has_the_large_hadron_collider_disproved_the_existence_of_ghosts.html

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  What do you think about this relating to

  all metaphysical occurrences said to

  occur by beleivers in our physical world?
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

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  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

  aaaaand discuss!.

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  unsure

  BTW: I removed the nonsense post from your OP.
  

  You mean the link within the post. Great thanks. Any chance of substituting the second link in my later post (from the sceptics site) and removing the quotes from the title? Or just removing the quotes from the subject title so it doesn't look like I'm quoting the defunct link?

  I'll check out the Netflix documentary. Thanks for pointing it out.
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

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  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

  aaaaand discuss!.

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  @Village Idiot

  Thanks for your last post. I agree re: Occam's Razor that the simplest answer is usually the right one, ie. it was a parlour trick.

  I just like to "what if" myself. It's refreshing being able to do so after not be allowed to do so in the Jehovah's Witness world.
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

  1. social
  2. current

  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

  aaaaand discuss!.

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  unsure

  Here,

  http://skepdic.com/randi.html
  

  The above is a link from a sceptics site on the topic. I have now presented links from both sides of the argument (see my last post)
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

  1. social
  2. current

  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

  aaaaand discuss!.

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  unsure

  Again, for the record, I'm agnostic. (Check out my other thread)

  I'm a big ol' fence sitter. Don't assume any of my posts have an agenda. Don't assume anything about me.

  I like to play the what if card on all sides of the argument.